Episode 96: Monday, February 18, 2008

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 096

In this episode:

  • the end of the Writers Guild of America strike,
  • technical difficulties while recording last week,
  • an old VCR with instructions on a VHS tape,
  • our video tour of the Fun N Games arcade a week before it shut down,
  • new listeners (Manny the Mailman and Neal from www.intoyourhead.com),
  • new comments by Esteban (Iron Man, War Machine, and stupid sizes of Star Wars toys),
  • the upcoming movie G.I. Joe (2009) starring Dennis Quaid and Marlon Wayans,
  • The 7th Portal and Stan Lee’s bankruptcy in 2001,
  • Ringo Starr starring in Stan Lee’s new superhero show,
  • the most useless object a Transformer could change into,
  • celebrity deaths (Roy Scheider),
  • celebrities’ real names,
  • and Dirty Work (1998) starring Norm MacDonald, Artie Lange, and Jack Warden.

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Episode 95: Friday, February 1, 2008

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 095

In this episode:

  • a friend trying to cash in comic books,
  • the Close Encounters of the Third Kind 30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition DVD boxed set,
  • XM Satellite Radio,
  • the upcoming movie Iron Man (2008) starring Robert Downey Jr. and Samuel L. Jackson,
  • the speeds of various animals,
  • Hot to Trot (1988) starring Bobcat Goldthwait and John Candy,
  • old cartoons and TV shows on In2TV AOL Television for free (www.in2tv.com),
  • Ed O’Neill as the 1-800-COLLECT Phone Patrol,
  • Louie Anderson,
  • and the boring second host of The Weakest Link George Gray.

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Episode 94: Tuesday, January 22, 2008

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 094

In this episode:

  • celebrity deaths (The Fabulous Moolah and Evel Knievel, thanks to www.deadoraliveinfo.com),
  • Deck the Halls (2008) starring Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick,
  • Holiday in Handcuffs (2007) starring Melissa Joan Hart and Mario Lopez,
  • bad new reality shows (Clash of the Choirs and American Gladiators),
  • Pros vs. Joes,
  • Greg’s recent DVD purchases at Costco (The X-Files: The Ultimate Collection, The Karate Kid Collection, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3-Pak, etc.),
  • Platoon (1986) incorrectly listed as Hot Shots! (1991) on the digital cable guide,
  • stupid customer reviews on Amazon.com,
  • The Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Collection DVD reissue,
  • and lame DVD special features.

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Episode 93: Monday, January 14, 2008

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 093

We’re back!

In this episode:

  • bidding on old video games on eBay.com,
  • the San Francisco Rush series,
  • Sega in the 1990s (the Genesis, Sega CD, 32X, etc.),
  • the pronunciation of Uranus,
  • giant camcorders in the 1980s,
  • tiny new digital camcorders,
  • longer episodes of The Paunch Stevenson Show,
  • the unreliability of 5.25″ floppy disks,
  • old video game controllers with telephone keypads on them,
  • the Coleco Telstar Arcade from 1977,
  • light guns (the NES Zapper, Wii Zapper, SNES Super Scope, and Genesis Menacer),
  • the Sega Activator,
  • deceptive toy commercials,
  • pointless toys (Shrinky Dinks, Lite-Brite, wrestling figures, etc.),
  • creative toys (the Etch A Sketch Animator and the Fisher-Price PXL-2000),
  • live action role-playing (G.I. Joe, The Transformers, etc.),
  • our review of Incredible Change-Bots by Jeffrey Brown (2007),
  • shopworn books at Barnes & Noble,
  • The Dark Knight (2008) trailer,
  • the Rambo (2008) trailer,
  • Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007),
  • the upcoming movie Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins (2009),
  • Still Crazy (1998) starring Billy Connolly and Bill Nighy,
  • Read-Along Adventures (www.readalongadventures.com),
  • the Lame Idiot of 2007 (Michael Bay),
  • and director Uwe Boll.

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Episode 92: Monday, December 10, 2007

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 092

We talk with special guest Jonald Reyes, director of the documentary film That Asian Thing (www.thatasianthing.com)!

In this episode:

  • the documentary film That Asian Thing by Jonald Reyes (www.thatasianthing.com),
  • Asian-American celebrities (George Takei, Tiger Woods, Lucy Liu, Bobby Lee, Dat Phan, Rex Navarrete, James Iha, etc.),
  • Margaret Cho’s TV show All-American Girl,
  • Celebrity Boxing,
  • Pat Smear,
  • the Nirvana: Unplugged In New York DVD,
  • Super Bowl XLI,
  • William Hung,
  • Fisher Stevens playing an Indian character in Short Circuit (1986),
  • the upcoming movie Rambo (2008) starring Sylvester Stallone,
  • Timecode (2000) starring Salma Hayek,
  • the Independent Film Channel’s version of Pulp Fiction (1994) starring John Travolta,
  • Second City and Keegan Michael Key,
  • Jonald’s parents,
  • the Filipino delicacy balut,
  • professional boxing,
  • Belleville, NJ,
  • My Chemical Romance,
  • Belleville High School,
  • Ronald McDonald,
  • old typewriters,
  • the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China,
  • celebrity sightings (John Cusack and Amy Poehler),
  • the New Monkees,
  • and the purpose of joining the Boy Scouts of America.

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